Dear GAAPP Community,

We hope that you are all well despite the ongoing pandemic, which is still demanding a tremendous amount of patience and perseverence from all of us. We are all currently hoping for an improvement of the situation in the near future and are hopeful for the accelerated progress of the Covid-19 vaccination efforts, which will certainly continue to be a major game changer globally.

As a number of Global Awareness Days and Events are approaching, we are busy preparing our contributions. What is more, we have also recently made a number of major enhancements to our online presence.

We wish you all the best and would like to remind you that you are always welcome to contact our team with your questions and concerns.

Best wishes,

The GAAPP Team

Important News

GAAPP has a Newly Designed Website!

We have recently launched our newly designed Website, which is now available in all languages!

We have also added subdomains that are now easily and directly accessible with language.gaapp.org (for example: fr.gaapp.org, bs.gaapp.org, ar.gaapp.org, etc.). All Member Organizations are mentioned and introduced here. We would kindly ask you to please check whether the information concerning your Organization is still correct. Do not hesitate to send us an email if any changes are necessary!

Join our Facebook Group!

Our public Facebook channel is aimed at a broader population to create increased awareness of our common concerns. With the newly created, private Facebook group, we intent to create a space in which we not only provide you with information tailored to your specific needs, but where informal exchange is also facilitated.

Access to the Group is limited to GAAPP Members- Click here to join!

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Follow our Twitter List!

Benefit from seeing all the Twitter activities of all GAAPP members at any time in just one click by simply following our Twitter list!

This way, we can not only support each other, but also give patient-relevant content a wider reach! Follow our Twitter List by clicking here.

Upcoming Events

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May 5th is World Asthma Day!

This year’s theme is “Uncovering Asthma Misconceptions”. The theme provides a call to action to address common widely held myths and misconceptions concerning asthma that prevent persons with asthma from enjoying optimal benefit from the major advances in the management of this condition.

Common misconceptions surrounding asthma include:

  • Asthma is a childhood disease; individuals will grow out of it as they age.
  • Asthma is infectious.
  • Asthma sufferers should not exercise.
  • Asthma is only controllable with high dose steroids.

GINA would like to address these myths and misconceptions by inviting our you to submit a short video that addresses and corrects a misconception of asthma commonly held in your country or region.  Videos should be no longer than 15 seconds in duration. For more details on their format please contact us for an example and a draft outline. Email your ideas and videos to : k.rurey@ginasthma.org (the deadline for their submission is March 30, 2021). A compilation of addressable myths and misconceptions about asthma from around the world will be assembled and posted on social media to increase awareness of asthma.

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April 7th is World Health Day!

We are working on improved standards of care to minimize the impact of allergies, asthma, COPD, atopic dermatitis and urticaria.

IPCRG World Conference

Both GAAPP and IPCRG believe in the importance of working locally in primary care and collaborating globally to improve respiratory health. The 10th IPCRG World Conference will be held on Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 May 2021 as a fully virtual event.

GAAPP will be present at the event with a virtual booth. The programme covers best practice in primary care management of chronic respiratory diseases, tobacco dependence, updates on COVID-19, long/post COVID-19 and COVID-19 Vaccination, amongst other topics. The delegate fee is €50 for patient representatives. Participants will receive access to all materials for the duration of 6 months Please find the full programme and registration link here.

Reminders

Health System Failure Film

You can still find the video that reveals the scope of the problem of over-reliance on SABA inhalers here.

You can use the 3-minute Health System Failure Video to drive your organization’s advocacy activites to address SABA overuse and over-reliance in asthma with policy makers.

New GAAPP Members

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The GAAPP Community keeps growing!

We would like to welcome our new Member Organizations from Bulgaria and Spain :

  • ABBA- Association of Bulgarians with Bronchial Asthma, Allergy and COPD
  • ASMABI – Asociación de Apoyo a personas afectadas por el asma de Bizkaia

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